Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says Louisiana’s homeowner’s insurance rates are showing signs of stabilizing, as indicated by only slight average rise in rates, and the number of active insurance companies in the state. He says the tripling of the state’s Guaranty Fund Protection has given consumers confidence…
CUT 5 (07) “five hundred thousand dollars”

The BESE Board approves a plan that will help more low income families receive federal assistance so they can send their young children to daycare. State Superintendent of Education John White says today’s action provides 10 million dollars in subsidies in the Child Care Assistnace Program.
CUT 12 (05) Q: ‘for families”
And he hopes to see more kids that qualify in daycare.
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State Police say a suspect who was shot by a Union Parish Sheriff’s Deputy and a trooper Tuesday night is in serious condition. Troop F spokesman Michael Reichardt says the sheriff’s office was called out to a disturbance around 10:30pm in Downsville regarding a man who was apparently threatening family members with a firearm…:
CUT 8 (11) “all their commands”
He says charges are pending against the suspect pending his release from a Shreveport hospital.

Republican US Senator and gubernatorial candidate David Vitter is calling out New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu. in a letter released today Vitter says he needs to  focus on murders; not monuments.” Vitter says addressing the high murder rate is primarily the responsibility of local leadership; after Landrieu criticized Vitter for not offering enough federal resources to local law enforcement.